Category Archives: First law of ecology

Lessons From Seaweed

Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Ecology, Economics, Environment, First law of ecology, Maine, RPT Coffin, Seaweed, Susan Shetterly
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Most Mainers know something about seaweed, some of what they know might even be true.  My mother sang the praises of dulse in her diet, though I recall that she rarely ate it.  My father used what we called rockweed from the shores of Penobscot Bay to enrich his vegetable garden.  R.P.T. Coffin describes the […]

The Northern Bobwhite Calls for a New Ethic

Anthropocene, Bird life, Climate Change, Commodification of nature, Ecosystem services, Environmental Ethics, First law of ecology, Global Change, Maine, Nature, Non-market valuation, Opinion, Rewilding, Utilitarianism, Values, Wilderness, Wildlife
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For the past few weeks we have heard a Northern Bobwhite singing in our neighborhood. This is a bird we associate with Southern New England, so we were surprised to hear it in Eastern Maine.  My first thought was,  here is yet another bird whose range has moved north in response to climate change, a […]